The Year of the Virus

The earth has a secret,
one that she is now sharing with the world.
She has the power to change our future,
She has the power to change her fate,
she has all along.

A monster of our own making has been released,
and with an instant it has altered the human species forever.
Consuming and restricting our lives,
just as we have restricted hers
with air pollution and deforestation.

Lives lost; sacrifices made,
pointing the finger everywhere but at ourselves.
Even during these times of change, it is profits over people,
it is individual rights, over human rights.

People are sleeping, afraid to wake to a new world awaiting us.